Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care | Adult Track

Wednesday, March 3, 2027, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM ET through Monday, May 17, 2027, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM ET

Hybrid

Continuing Education Offered

• 2 hours ethics synchronous interactive online
• 16 hours general asynchronous online
• 19 hours general synchronous interactive online
• 2 hours pain management synchronous interactive online

Description

This program provides professionals with a foundation in integrated behavioral health and primary care, emphasizing the needs of adults. Participants explore integrated care models, public policies, ethical considerations, and implementation strategies that support collaborative, culturally responsive, and recovery-oriented services, with attention to population health, health disparities, access, and patient experience. Adult-focused content examines integration models including chronic care models, collaborative and stepped care, care coordination, behavioral health consultant roles, Ethical considerations, and billing considerations. Participants strengthen their understanding of comprehensive assessment and structured screening and develop skills in brief, evidence-based behavioral interventions that promote health behavior change and can be adapted to fast-paced clinical settings and each person’s biopsychosocial, socioeconomic, and cultural context. Biomedical content addresses pain management and the relationships among chronic medical conditions, mental health and substance use disorders, and psychotropic medications, including physical health disparities, primary care psychopharmacology, and prescription drug misuse. Broad learning goals include strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, selecting appropriate assessment and intervention approaches, and contributing to equitable, coordinated services that support adult health, wellness, and recovery.

Objectives

1. Explain the difference between colocation and integration.
2. Compare and contrast interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams.
3. Identify at least three social determinants of health for adult populations.
4. Identify at least two ethical challenges to integrated health practice.
5. Address/resolve common ethical challenges in integrated health practice.
6. Develop skills to hire and train staff in integrated health practice.
7. Implement an organizational self-assessment for cultural responsiveness.
8. Explain how provider mindfulness and self-care relate to workforce challenges such as burnout prevention.
9. Identify two financing strategies that can facilitate integrated care.
10. List the evidence-based components of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for addicted populations.
11. Apply motivational enhancement in integrated health settings.
12. Use cognitive behavioral therapy in integrated health settings.
13. Describe the assessment of pain in integrated health settings.
14. Define and recognize "change talk."
15. Define and apply "reflective listening."
16. Define and apply "cognitive restructuring."
17. Engage in self-assessment in clinical practice.
18. State the demographic health disparities facing people living with serious and persistent mental illness.
19. State the role of integrated primary care service delivery in remediating health disparities facing people living with serious and persistent mental illness.
20. Apply 2 strategies to counteract the over-prescription of opioid medications.
21. List the 3 most common psychiatric medications prescribed in primary care and their uses, contraindications, and potential side-effects.
22. Identify at least five social determinants of health for the pediatric population.
23. Identify three risk factors for teen suicide.
24. Identify the five core components of the IMPACT Collaborative Care model.
25. State the role of warm handoffs in behavioral health consultation.
26. Describe 3 considerations for providing care to the LGBTQ population.
27. Describe strategies for anti-racist practice in integrated health care settings.
28. Outline the four-step model for approaching pain in primary care settings.
29. Describe how the IMPACT Collaborative Care model addresses common barriers to behavioral health care.
30. Identify at least three common chronic health conditions among older adults presenting in primary care settings.
31. Describe mental health screening strategies for older adults.
32. Identify at least three body systems.
33. Describe two organizational challenges in implementation.
34. Describe specific interventions to use with clients around body systems.
35. Explain 3 factors leading to over-prescription of opioid medications.
36. Use a cultural lens as a behavioral health consultant to better support relationships.
37. Advocate for patients and their needs as a behavioral health consultant.
38. Identify relationship building strategies with patients.
39. Describe team roles, communication processes, and workflows that facilitate collaborative practice.

Agenda

Wednesday, March 3, 2027, 6:00pm–7:00pm | Program Intro & Small Group

Monday, March 8, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Introduction to Integrated Health Care

Monday, March 15, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Social Determinants of Health

Wednesday, March 17, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | A Model of Behavioral Health Consultation

Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Pain Management

Wednesday, March 31, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Collaborative Care Model

Wednesday, April 7, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Motivational Enhancement I

Wednesday, April 14, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Motivational Enhancement II

Wednesday, May 5, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Ethics

Monday, May 10, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | ACT and Mindfulness

Wednesday, May 12, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Business Models

Monday, May 17, 2027, 5:30pm–7:30pm | Implementation

Certificate Director

Michelle Duprey, LMSW

A list of contributing instructors can be found on the IBHPC program home page

CE Approval Statement

The University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2026–5/15/2029. Social workers completing this course receive 39 continuing education credits.

Social workers licensed in Michigan may claim 2 pain management continuing education credits.

Please see the CE Policies page for more information about continuing education.